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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8 | Part 1, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bessie Black Bull goes back to town a third time, what does she trade with Indian women in exchange for information about Blue Elk?
(a) Wool.
(b) Basketry.
(c) Firewood.
(d) Calico.

2. What do George and Bessie Black Bull opt for when the white man's method of support fails?
(a) Smoking sheep and fish they do not eat.
(b) Smoking venison and fish they do not eat.
(c) Smoking coyotes and fish they do not eat.
(d) Smoking cattle and fish they do not eat.

3. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?
(a) Wool cloth and a coat with carved antler buttons.
(b) Wool material and a coat with a zipper.
(c) Calico material and a coat with brass buttons.
(d) Calico cloth and a coat with wooden buttons.

4. How does Tom Black Bull share part of his deer kill?
(a) With a bear.
(b) With Blue Elk.
(c) With Jim Thatcher.
(d) With the sheriff.

5. What is the white man's idea of how the Utes should live?
(a) Farming corn.
(b) Hunting and fishing.
(c) Raising hogs.
(d) Raising chickens and turkeys.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?

2. What is Bessie Black Bull relieved about upon her return to the mountains following her second trip to Jim Thatcher's store?

3. After two years, George and Bessie Black Bull are in debt for how much to the white man?

4. The main character, a Ute boy, first learns the Indian legends, keeps them alive, and then lives with white men. What happens to him, ultimately?

5. What does the introductory poem summarize?

(see the answer key)

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